Fw: all of God

All of God

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It occurred to me on reflection the other day that every aspect of life, including my life, was of God.  We speak of knowing God as one option among many...one choice in a basket full of choices.  But what choice did we make that brought us life?  What input of ours was considered in our personal design?  How much do we have to do with the trees, the sky, the birds above or the squirrels and deer that move below?

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Do we not, even in a natural sense, owe all of our life experience to God?  Some might say that all of nature is a chance occurrence...a random spark set in motion somehow from an unexplained source that triggered the complexity of nature and nature's harmony of days and seasons and all manner of life.  But a serious minded thinker must view that attitude with skepticism at best.

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My online Bible has this verse for today's daily meditation:

Proverbs 21:21

"Whoever pursues righteousness and kindness
    will find life, righteousness, and honor."

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While we are all 'alive' we don't truly find life until we pursue the upward alignment with God (righteousness) and the horizontal outreach of love (kindness).  When we do that we follow the Lord's command to love Him and to love others as ourselves.  And the return is the righteousness we sought coupled with honor, as the echo of kindness...and we, who are already alive, will then find the eternal life that the One who fashioned all intends for all who will come after Him.

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"Death is inevitable.  Life is a choice!"

John 11:25

Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live."